Performing Arts Practice - Level 3 Extended Diploma

Essentials

Duration: 2 Years Full-time
Start date: 4th September 2023
End date: 6th June 2025
Information event: Y

Course fee: FREE (See eligibility criteria)

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Course Content

This is a practical course which has options in Dance, Drama, Music and Mime. Units include:

• Performing to an Audience
• Delivering a Music Product
• Auditions for Actors
• Dance Performace
• Singing Skills for Actors and Dancers
• Makeup for Performers
• Drama Improvisation
• Performing Arts Business
• Musical Theatre
• Applying Acting Styles
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If you are accepted onto this course without a Grade C or above in Maths and/or English you will be required to complete the relevant Essential Skills qualification. This will be a compulsory part of your timetable.

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Course Aims

• Obtain a qualification equivalent to 3 A Levels.
• Learn about employment opportunities.
• Develop skills needed to start or progress in a career.
• Develop a range of personal skills and attitudes.

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Special Features

• Coursework and project based learning is a major percentage of the overall assessment in the majority of units in year 1 and 2.
• Students have the opportunity to improve their existing skills as well as learning new skills while working on formal assessments and extra curricular activities.
• The main aim of this course is to get students into industry, which we do by immersing them into a professional working environment. We achieve this by giving the students the opportunity to perform in full scale productions, creating events and performances for external companies such as the Rosepark farm and their Halloween Extravaganza and Winter wonderland which was attended by over 4000 people and received rave reviews such as “Halloween extravaganza out of this world! Never been to anything like it- Hollywood quality acting from NRC college drama students who should be commended to their lecturers as all a- star! There aren't enough superlatives to describe this event!”
• Students also get to develop their skillsets by working alongside the other teams in the creative industries departments working on short films, music videos and animations.
• Students are also prepared for their next step on the educational ladder by exploring what courses and apprenticeships are available to them on achieving a L3 qualification. Special links have been made with Universities such as  Liverpool Hope and their school of creative Arts and Uclan the University of central Lancashire, both of which have had students accepted onto their courses.
• The highlight of the year is the end of year show in the local Riverside Theatre, where students get to perform and work with industry professionals on a major show.

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Assessment Methods

• Case studies, assignments and work-based assessments, along with projects, performance observation and time-constrained assessments.
• Assignments are designed using realistic scenarios which give students the opportunity to make maximum use of practical activities as part of their continuous assessment.
• Students also take part in the variuos Music Skills and Performing Arts competitions around Northern Ireland, with assessments being built around the content of these competitions.

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Course Update

Please note that due to ongoing major campus construction projects courses at Ballymena, Coleraine and Ballymoney may be relocated to alternative suitable locations as required.

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Applicants should have at least 4 GCSE's at Grade C or above or other relevant qualifications. In circumstances where there are more applications for the course than there are places available, the College reserves the right to ask for higher grades.

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Upon successful completion students may progress to employment or a related higher education such as the Level 5 Higher National Diploma in Performing Arts at our Newtownabbey campus or related degree programmes at University.

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